Fundamental Baptist Christian

I remembered reading through the seven sacraments or ordinances of the Roman Catholic institution in a catechism. One of the teachings is that marriage must be treated as a sacrament. What it also implies is that if your marriage is done in a civil court that even if it was duly registered, that both couples were in a sexually pure union then it's not a marriage. So does that mean that a person can marry in a civil court, get divorced and marry his next spouse in the Roman Catholic institution? Let's address the issue of civil marriage that is pure and holy. In short there was no incest, no adultery and it was between two people who are eligible for marriage. So why should the Roman Catholic institution even think that two people who got married with the sexually pure prerequisites in the eyes of God should be rejected. Is it because unless it's a priest who performs the marriage then the marriage can't be validated? It's a problem with how Roman Catholics have the...

August 28 marks the the anniversary of the divorce of Prince Charles Philip Arthur George and the late Diana Spencer. I feel like that August should be considered as divorce awareness month  as a result. They sure had a magnificent royal wedding only to have wasted a lot of money in the process. It was certainly a big affair but it ended with divorce. Unfortunately, they are but one example of what's wrong with today's society. If royals like them are getting a divorce then so are those who don't belong to the status of royalty. Even before their divorce we can see how broken homes and divorce are becoming the norm. When Jesus spoke in Matthew 19:3-12 and Mark 10:2-12 about divorce and marriage He means business. When He said that what God has put together let no man put asunder. When laws against incestuous relationships were established they were meant to lessen genetic abnormalities. When the Bible says no then it means no and when it says yes it means yes. God origi...

While divorce in America may be faster than divorce in the Philippines (which has been legally called annulment despite the fact that the purpose and the end is basically divorce!) but there's some stress related to it. In the case of the Philippines it can take up to two years to pursue a divorce and there has to be that "valid reason" like spousal abuse, adultery and "psychological inability" and what is so sad is that, regardless of reasons some divorces in the Philippines under the cover of "annulment" has pushed through like how many celebrity weddings as LEGAL as they were end up in a tragic divorce which God hates the idea of divorce by every means (Matthew 19:6, Mark 10:9)- a few months to two years. There's the filing fee, then it is very necessary to carefully partition the property into two and then if cases come to cases, the property is given to the wife. In fact, divorce is so foolish it targets the foolish. God can have many wa...

One of the biggest problems in a society where divorce is allowed is that when the wife grows older, the husband tends to dump his older wife for a much younger woman. I had ran across somebody who begged his boss for a cash advance of at least PHP 250,000.00 in order for him to annul his wife to marry a much younger woman (who was in her late 20s while he was in his late 40s and so was his wife) because according to him, "Marriage is only meant until the wife grows older." That is SO NOT like the ideal plan of marriage by God Himself which was in Matthew 19:6 that the Lord Jesus Christsaid that whatever God has put together, let no man separate them. What is utterly foolish about the idea of dumping the older wives for a younger woman is that it really makes one look older because of the stress of filing for a divorce, it's a marriage based on lust and not love, a marriage based on "convenience" and status symbols and it is a total dishonor of the marriage vo...

Matthew 19:6 says, "Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder ." The issue today is that many synonyms are treated like antonyms. Two words that get played as such also are divorce and annulment? Is there a difference? The legal constitution of man may redefine them but the effect is still the same. It's still divorce. It's still annulment. Mrs. Liberty Jesalva of Bible Baptist Church says, " Christian lawyers cannot defend a law that is a lie ." when she was asked about Christian lawyers who handle the ANNULMENT cases in her article, "Saving the Christian Home " in Volume 3, Issue 8 of the Baptist Herald. Now for the definition of annul and divorce: Annul- make (something, esp a law or marriage) void; cancel the validity of; abolish, To obliterate the effect or existence of: Divorce- To dissolve the marriage bond between, To end marriage with (one'...